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I guess we've seen the last of the dern Rio Grande. By God, he'll wish he had before we hit Nebraska, Jasper Fant said. What if Montana ain't the paradise he said it was? We'll have come a hell of a way for nothing. Crossing the green Nueces, he remembered the snakes and the Irish boy.

Jake mounted, but he was reluctant to leave. Digging with a knife was slow work, but it was the only digging tool he had. It covers everything and one day it will cover me. Damn it, he brought it on himself, Call said.